Door for landaus or other vehicles.



PATENTED APR. 18, 1905.

W. W. OULLBMORE.

DOOR FOR LANDAUS OR OTHER VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED 0013.3, 1903.

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o/WMM UNITED STATES Patented April 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

DOOR FOR LANDAUS OR OTHER VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 787,436, dated April 18, 1905.

' Application filed October 3, 1903. Serial No. 175,649.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WVENDON CUL- LEMORE, a subject of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 53 Beaconsfield Villas, Preston Park, Brighton, in the county of Sussex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Connection with the Doors of Landaus or other Road-Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in connection with the doors of landaus and other road vehicles, the object being to provide means for preventing the door being opened while the window-sash is up, and thus to obviate the breakage of the window or sash, which frequently happens when attempts are made to open the door with the sash in its raised position.

In carrying my invention into effect in the case of a landau I proceed in or in about the following manner, making reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 shows a view from inside the vehicle; Fig. 2, a vertical section ofFig. 1.

I provide a recess a in that part 7) of the door frame or hood which is folded back when the landau is opened, and in this recess is pivoted a roller 0, carried on a spindle supported at each end in the arm of a fork (Z, the tail 6 of the fork being pivoted on a pin f and having hinged at the free end the upper end of a bolt g, free to move in a hole in the frame. In the head it of the door is a hole c', which when the door is shut comes immediately under the bolt g. The roller 0 is arranged to hang normally in the path of the window-sash j when the sash is down, in which position the bolt 9 is withdrawn from the hole in the doorhead and the door can be freely opened. When, however, the sash j is raised, it pushes the roller 0 into the. recess a, and this forces the bolt g into the hole in the door-head and looks it, in which position it remains and the door is unopenable until the sash is lowered and the bolt thus withdrawn from the hole in the door-head by the falling of the roller out of the recess.

Although the drawings show the invention as applied to a landau-door, I do not confine it to this one application, as by suitable modification it can be adapted to the doors of any other road-vehicle.

I may, if necessary, use a spring or other means to keep the bolt in position; but from practice I prefer to carry out my invention in the before-mentioned manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In landau and like road-vehiclesadoor-frame having a recess in its inner face: a fork-ended arm pivoted in the said recess so as to normally hang out of the recess into the upward path of the window-sash: a roller on a spindle crossing the forked end of the said arm: a bolt hinged at one end to the free end of the said arm and free to move in a hole in the doorframe so as to enter a hole in the head of the door substantially as hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two'subscribing witnesses.

I WILLIAM WENDON CULLEMORE.

WVitnesses:

GEORGE HUGHES, HENRY CoLMAN. 

